This is my new puppy who visited me in my office for the first time today. She was very helpful with my research.

Meredith Martin's essay “Paradise Lost” pairs Horvath’s Room for the Lost Paradise with
Vigée Le Brun’s Prince of Nassau portrait to explore rococo simulation, colonial extraction, and period room historiography:
https://loom.ly/ViyGIrs

#18thcentury #arthistory

Just so we're clear...

Article I
Section 8: Powers of Congress
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;

I'm pleased to announce the new IAHI-NACBS VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP--a collaboration between the IU Indianapolis Arts and Humanities Institute (IAHI) and @thenacbs.bsky.social.

www.nacbs.org/fellowships/...

#skystorians #history #envhist #histci #envhum #humanities #environmentalhumanities

"IMLS makes up only 0.0046% of the federal budget and efficiently provides critical resources to libraries and museums in all 50 states and territories in communities rural to urban. The museum sector, in turn, generates $50 billion in economic impact."

www.aam-us.org/2025/03/31/a...

“We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives in the dream.”

RIP David Lynch.

Sunrise at IU Indianapolis this morning. Happy to be at the IU Indianapolis Arts and Humanities Institute working away on our exciting plans for the semester.

#iu #indianapolis #iuindy #highered

World premiere tonight of LEXIA:
AN AI OPERA #music #opera #arts

Just found this bookplate in one of the books in my collection.

#books #bookhistory #oil #therewillbeblood

Carl Baumann. Rote Kapelle Berlin [Harro Schulze-Boysen, Walter Küchenmeister, Kurt Schumacher, and Carl Baumann] (1941) Tempera on Nessel over wood. 79×99 cm._LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster.

#skystorians #history #germany

“People who imagine that history flatters them (as it does, indeed, since they wrote it) are impaled on their history like a butterfly on a pin and become incapable of seeing or changing themselves, or the world."
--James Baldwin

#history #historians #jamesbaldwin

You never know what you’re going to see when you get in the car and drive. Last week, I visited Eau Claire, WI and found out that they are home to the Wisconsin Logging Museum.

I don't know why my GPS took me off the main highway last week, but I had quite the David Lynch highway experience in Wisconsin last week.